Thursday, June 27, 2013

Have you read about the person who plagiarized Tammara Webber and Jamie McGuire? This person, Jordin B Williams used passages from both Easy by Tammara Webber and Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire in 'her' manuscript and the book was ranked at #58 on Amazon's kindle list!

Easy is one of my favorite books and I've read it 3 or 4 times so I recognized the passage immediately. I'm sure there are plenty of people who feel the same about Beautiful Disaster. How could this person think she was going to get away with it?

Here is a link to the DearAuthor blog - the person who initially called it out. She's got the passages highlighted and then the text from the true authors' books.

But with good reason. I finally finished my latest revise. It took three months!!! Should it take this long? I don't think so... Anyway, this is it. No more. It is either my shelf novel #1 or I'll self-publish, or maybe I'll work on a query and synposis. I'm terrible at writing synposes and queries which is why I'm leaning towards self-publication. And I want a say on the cute couple on the cover (I'm shallow that way)...

Just in time too. Heat Wave hit and it is miserably hot today.

So what's next?

I've got a hundred pages of book #2 which I left it hanging for a month. It is calling my name.

I'm still working on short stories every month with lovely CP. No, I haven't finished my June story yet, but I still have three days!!! lol. This month's prompt is to write something inspired by Lillian Gish, the silent movie actress.

Oh, and lovely CP's Anthology is out on Monday. I looked it up on Amazon. It isn't listed yet... I hopefully will be able to put up a link soon.

Saturday, June 1, 2013

My lovely critique partner, Pernille Hughes, is one of three winners whose short story will be published in the upcoming Belinda Jones Travel Club Sunlonger anthology. The book will be available July 1st.